According
to recent LinkedIn data, artificial intelligence (AI)
jobs are up 74% while data science jobs are up 37% since 2015. Perhaps less
visible, but emerging quickly in importance, are the robots increasingly powered by that data science. Small wonder, then, that
the second-hottest job in LinkedIn's analysis is the robotics engineer, experiencing growth
of 40% since 2015.
While the open source
projects behind the rise of data
science are reasonably well known (e.g., TensorFlow and Keras,
among others), most people aren't aware that robotics is also heavily influenced by
open source and, in particular, by the Robot Operating System (ROS). Given
the importance of ROS to the swelling open source robotics community, it's worth
learning a bit more about it.
The Robot
Operating System was born at Stanford
ROS has been around for over 10
years and has tens of thousands of developers building packages for it. In
fact, according to ABI Research, roughly 55% of the world's
robots will include a ROS package by 2024.
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